Group cohesiveness correlates weakly with ethnocentrism despite correlating with authoritarianism

Evidence

Broadening the content of the scale naturally weakened its internal consistency. My best revised Group Cohesiveness Scale, twenty-six items answered by 252 students in October 1992, had a mean interitem correlation of . and an alpha of .80. It correlated . with the RWA Scale. But its relationship with scores on my Ethnocentrism Scale came in at only .23, whereas the RWA scale correlated . with Ethnocentrism. Cohesiveness also did not correlate as well with continued acceptance of the home religion (. versus .44), nor differentiate political party preference as well. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1100

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical falsification of the hypothesis that in-group identification alone drives prejudice — distinguishes Altemeyer’s RWA from social-identity-theory accounts; useful against the vault’s need to separate identification from authoritarian prejudice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1100